Chapter 920: Food and hard to hold but not tasty, and showdown

It only takes three days from the Republic of Jiede to Lapa territory to traverse north and south.

In recent years, the Republic of Jiede has been building railways; they not only build them in their own country, but also actively extend the railway network to other countries.

As long as they are not strongly opposed, they will include them in their railway network system.

Some people say they have bad intentions in doing so; once the railway is smooth, their army can reach any place on the entire land in a very short time.

But some people are relatively indifferent to this, especially some very poor countries; they have nothing left to be lost.

Instead, they hope more that the Republic of Jiede can come to invade them, so that they all take the initiative to surrender from top to bottom, saying that perhaps life can be better than it is now.

There are fewer people who refuse them to build railways; whoever stands out to refuse is as if standing on the opposite side of everyone, so the railway networks of eleven countries are connected together.

And the source is the "Central Station" of the Republic of Jiede, a huge starting point, even bigger than some stations in the Federation.

Such a huge project actually didn't cost much money, because the value of people here is very cheap.

The core and foundation of "value" is actually people.

There are many people, and they are cheap, so the construction cost is naturally not high.

The reason why all projects that seem huge to Federal people can be completed in this backward place lies here.

As long as you provide food and housing, and give a little money every month, five Federal Sol of local currency, someone will grab it to do it, and some people even come to do it without money.

The entire Asian Alliance region has a population of over 100 million; here, everything is lacking, but people are not lacking.

Some people don't do it, but some people grab it to do it.

Railways, and work related to railways, also became one of the very decent jobs in the entire Asian Alliance region within a period of time.

Whether it is the section chief or ordinary railway workers, as long as they wear their uniforms, even if it is the gray-blue coarse cloth uniform of railway workers, it will give people a very different feeling.

Not to mention the train conductor who drives the train.

After the train conductor finished washing up, he came to the cab, and the operator had been waiting for him here.

"Good morning."

The operators in the cab all bowed and saluted. "Good morning, sir."

"Are the boys all ready?", the train conductor came to his position and sat down.

Actually, this kind of steam engine train doesn't have any actual driving work; it's not like a car or a horse carriage, which still needs to correct the direction, and still has a bit of skill.

The train driver basically does one thing: decide the speed, let it run faster, or just stop it.

Besides this, occasionally pulling the whistle is also one of their jobs, but it can be done, or not done.

Several operators indicated that they were ready. The train conductor pulled the whistle; the whistle sound was already loud, but he could still distinguish that, in fact, this whistle sound was not truly "piercing."

The boiler hadn't been fully burned yet, and the pressure was not enough, but it was enough.

Accompanied by the sounding of the whistle, the train began to start slowly.

Very slow at first—

"Hu……………………………………chi"

It couldn't even catch up with the speed of pedestrians walking.

But as the boiler opened more air ducts and the firepower became more fierce, its speed also began to increase—

"Hu……………………………chi"

"Hu…………………chi"

"Hu…………chi"

"Huchi"

"Huchi huchi huchi"

"Huchi huchi huchi huchi huchi"

The train speed constantly increased, and the wind outside the train window blew in. The train conductor left only a small slit in the window, and then took out a novel he carried with him.

There was enough space here, and he glanced at the map, then put his attention on the novel.

Reading novels was the thing he liked most during the process of driving the train.

It passed the time, increased some knowledge that might not be of any use, and muddled through a day's time.

The Republic of Jiede has been developing at a super fast speed in recent years and is already the strongest and best-economy country in the entire Asian Alliance region, none of them.

All this has a direct relationship with the series of policy formulations of the president's cabinet.

The market is more open and free, and the budding of private capital makes the entire Republic of Jiede show a feeling of vitality!

It's like... the spring that bloomed with vitality before the arrival of midsummer!

Every Jiede person knows that they are walking at the forefront of the era, and they are firmly moving toward a great direction!

This feeling that life is getting better every day makes Jiede people deeply fascinated and addicted to it!

They are very honored, honored to become the background of the opening of a great era, even if it is just a background!

The public opinion and situation within the Republic of Jiede are very pure and united; perhaps this is the reason why they can create miracles on this rich yet poor land!

The train kept moving forward at a constant speed on the rails, and it was already entering Lapa territory, so the train conductor slowed down the train speed a bit.

In the past, he had encountered local indigenous people who, because of greed, dismantled the rails to sell for money.

Later, under the request of the Jiede president, a batch after batch was fiercely killed, and finally this momentum was successfully stopped.

This is actually a feature of the Asian Alliance side; what "basic rights of people," simply does not exist!

Whether it is the person who steals the rails, the person who sells the stolen goods, or the person who finally buys the finished steel ingots, the whole family will return to the embrace of God neatly.

After killing fiercely a few times, this momentum was stopped immediately.

Although it was a bit bloody and cruel, it was very useful.

From questioning, to understanding, to identification, in fact, it doesn't take too long and too many things.

At this time, it had entered from a place without many people to the hinterland of Lapa, where people lived around, and the train conductor had been here before.

Some people who had never seen a train would chase the train, which made him feel funny while also a bit nervous.

In order to remind these people not to appear on the rails, he very dutifully pulled the whistle a few times to remind people who might exist in places he couldn't see, telling them that the train was coming.

Pedro had already brought people to the designated location and had been here for more than an hour, and hadn't seen the "aid" mentioned by that Mr. Andy.

He was still okay and could endure it, but some people who followed him were already a bit unable to endure it.

It hadn't arrived after more than an hour, and they suspected whether they had been deceived by that Federal person.

If it wasn't for Pedro usually having a bit of prestige, perhaps they would have already left.

Just when some people couldn't help but try to test Pedro again in a complaining way, suddenly the sound of a whistle sounded in the jungle.

Everyone's attention was attracted to that direction in an instant.

Just like the train conductor's cognition of the poverty and backwardness here, not everyone had seen a train, and not everyone had heard the whistle sound.

People subconsciously produced fear of unknown things; some people immediately stood up nervously, facing the direction from which the whistle sound came, and constantly retreated.

Some people also asked while retreating, "What is calling?"

"Is it a monster?"

Pedro had seen a train; when he went to the Republic of Jiede, he had seen a train, and that "miracle train station."

"Don't be nervous, it's a train."

He froze for a moment after saying this sentence, and then realized where the "food aid" mentioned by Mr. Andy came from.

These Federal people are more insidious and vicious than he imagined!

If they took this batch of food, then they would never be able to stay in the same camp as the Lapa government again!

Because this food is food aided by the Republic of Jiede to Lapa; in a sense, it is actually something of the Lapa government!

They snatched the Lapa government's things, and still want to maintain a high degree of consistency with the Lapa government?

If Diego knew it was them who did it, he would definitely send the army to suppress them in the first time!

But not take it?

So many hungry people in the camp are waiting for food.

Not taking it is easy, but what about those people?

You know, hunger is not just about being hungry!

Long-term hunger will lead to organ failure, and they won't live long either.

Those elderly people who clearly eat every day but are constantly dying.

Those young people who clearly eat every day, but as long as they feel tired when doing things, they panic when they move. These are brought by hunger!

Without this food, they won't take long to die slowly, die bit by bit.

While others were still curious about what the train looked like, a helplessness had already appeared on Pedro's face.

Two minutes later, the sound of the train moving "huchi huchi" had been heard from far to near.

Just when Pedro was thinking about when those people like Andy would act, suddenly the sound of an explosion interrupted his thinking, followed by dense gunfire resounding through the entire jungle.

The jungle became lively for a short time, but only for a while.

Because most animals, those that could be eaten, had been caught almost all.

The sound of crossfire only lasted less than ten minutes, and then he heard the sound of a car leaving, and a prompt that should have been made by a loudspeaker sounded near the jungle—

"The food is on the train, whoever grabs it first counts."

Pedro froze again, and then was shocked. He picked up a larger cloth bag and rushed toward the train.

The meaning of that sentence just now is that there is more than one group of people waiting for "harvest" now!

Others saw Pedro move, and also followed him. These days they had adapted to life in the jungle; running and jumping in the jungle were no problem for them.

And barely being able to eat half full made them not have much fat, and everyone looked very agile.

Besides panting heavily when running, they could be called sports experts!

When a group of people passed through a jungle in front of them, they saw the train tracks on the protruding base, as well as the derailed train head and the two carriages at the front.

Pedro glanced at the blown-up tracks; he vaguely knew how the Federal people did it, and at the same time, he also discovered another batch of people.

And the leader of that batch of people, he knew.

They were classmates at Lanse's seminar. When they met again after a month or two, whether it was Pedro or the guy opposite, their emotions were complex.

There was joy.

This proved that they were not alone on this road.

People are most afraid of loneliness; once lonely, they will start to enter a state of internal friction, start to doubt themselves, doubt everything, and eventually move toward destruction or complete silence.

Not being lonely is very important to people.

So they would have joy.

But after joy, it was vigilance and precaution.

This is a road that will inevitably be lonely; they walked on this road without hesitation, which means they have to endure more pain and suffering than others!

Also have to face many things they might have considered, or not considered.

For example, conspiracy, deception, betrayal... all kinds of terrible things.

The relationship between people will become complex; many people can't even trust their own blood relatives, let alone they were just ordinary people who stayed together for seven days.

The smiles on their faces when they saw each other soon converged. They looked at each other twice, and then rushed to the nearest carriage.

Soon, they discovered that it was not just the two of them, but more people around.

Pedro and them pushed open a train carriage door with force, and the food inside flowed out with a crash, directly burying several people standing under the carriage.

Pedro froze for a moment, and hurriedly organized people to dig these unlucky guys out.

There was no fear or unhappiness on their faces, only surprise!

"This is wheat kernel!"

"We have something to eat!"

Pedro nodded, untied the bag from his waist, and began to pack frantically, and others were also packing.

Some people even grabbed a handful of wheat kernels and stuffed them into their mouths, chewing slowly, with happy smiles and tears on their faces!

These wheat kernels were not shelled, which was actually a kind of "open conspiracy."

You say, is it food?

Is it enough?

Pedro's big pocket was soon full. He raised his head and looked at the pile of food that hadn't lost much, and a faint joy also grew in his heart.

With so much food, everything would get better.

They had made some plans and strategies before, and originally thought that the aided food would not be too much, but didn't expect it to be so much!

People were all burying their heads in packing food, and the conflict event that Pedro was worried about didn't happen; no one would waste time on looting.

He looked at the long train, and he realized that the food here couldn't be packed by them alone at all!

At this time, not many people realized the source of this batch of food. Pedro didn't say it, and he noticed that his colleague might have realized it, but the other party didn't say it, and didn't open his mouth to ask.

Talking about these things at this time would only affect the speed at which they obtained food; it's better to wait until everything is settled before talking.

As one carriage door after another was opened, more food was spilled on the ground...

"We can pack another batch!"

His colleague, the high school teacher, had uncontrollable ecstasy on his face. "There is too much food, and I found that some people used small carts; we also have to get some small carts!"

Pedro glanced at the train, and he nodded. "Go, let's go back together!"

His colleague looked back at the food piled up like a mountain near the train with some hesitation. "Then this food..."

Pedro carried the food on his back and weighed it. "This food can't be packed by their pockets. We go back now and mobilize everyone to bring it back."

He looked at his colleague, and the two had been colleagues for more than ten years, and soon saw what the other party wanted to express from each other's eyes.

This was a kind of tacit understanding; his colleague didn't continue to oppose, but instead supported it very much.

A group of people quickly walked away with food on their backs, and they burst out with power they didn't imagine themselves—this should have been a very strenuous thing.

The food Pedro carried on his back was at least 70 or 80 pounds, but he didn't feel how heavy it was at all at this moment!

Their camp was some distance away, and it would take more than an hour to walk without carrying anything.

Carrying heavy objects, it took three hours to return to the camp.

People saw them bring back so much food, and every face showed a surprised radiance.

But soon, Pedro stood in the middle of the camp and told them that there was more food waiting for them, and he asked everyone to take tools and bring back more food!

Regardless of the elderly, women, children, as long as they can walk, all go!

"Is it necessary to be so urgent?", his colleague asked him when he was resting and catching his breath.

Pedro drank some water; the cold water was very refreshing, cooling down his hot body.

He looked at his colleague. "Don't tell me you don't know where this food comes from."

He also looked around at the same time, and after confirming that no one leaned over, he said, "Don't treat me as a fool; I read the newspaper, these foods come from the aid of the Republic of Jiede to Lapa."

Pedro nodded. "So you think this train suddenly lost contact, and Diego and those people will pretend not to see it?"

"I don't know what transaction they have, but I know that such a train of food must be worth a lot of money. At most, before dinner, if it doesn't arrive in Zhuolan, Diego will send people to look for it along the way!"

"So much food looks like a lot, but if we don't do our best, they won't leave us much."

"A round trip takes at least five hours; how many more trips can we walk?"

He watched that people had been mobilized, patted his colleague's back, and walked over to guide them on how to make tools.

Yes, tools for transportation.

Like some elderly, women, children, they couldn't carry dozens of pounds of heavy objects at all.

But as long as the tools were made well, they could easily push dozens of pounds, or even hundreds of pounds of things.

This is the biggest difference between humans and animals.

Humans not only use tools, but also make tools themselves.

However, he also encountered a small problem.

Several students' parents thought he shouldn't dismantle some of the tents that had been built well in order to manufacture transportation tools.

They had spent a long time building them, and now dismantling them wouldn't it mean that the previous work was wasted?

Looking at their strong opposition, Pedro hesitated for a while, and finally decided to tell the truth...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 921 =====